By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
A federal judge has approved a settlement that will require Diego State University (SDSU) to pay female student-athletes a combined $300,000 in damages in a landmark Title IX case.
In 2022, a group of 15 former women’s rowing and track & field varsity members filed a class-action lawsuit against SDSU for discriminating against its female student-athletes, and on Monday, the school agreed to the terms before the settlement and the “unprecedented monetary award” was formally approved by U.S. District Judge Todd W. Robinson.
The first-of-its-kind settlement requires SDSU to pay $300,000 in class-wide damages to female athletes for depriving them of equal athletic financial aid in the past. The payout will go to a total of 798 athletes who competed between the 2018-19 and 2024-25 academic years. The school will have to pay the amount within 30 days.
The settlement terms also include a promise to replace the turf for the women’s lacrosse team and to provide “professional photography services and publicity equitably to men’s and women’s teams.”
Additionally, the settlement requires SDSU to hire an outside expert to conduct a Gender Equity Review, develop a Gender Equity Plan, provide equal athletic financial aid and treatment & benefits to its female athletes in the future, and ensure its entire athletic department complies with Title IX by the end of the 2026-27 academic year, according to Arthur Bryant Law, the plaintiff’s counsel in the case.
“These women have made history,” said Arthur Bryant, lead counsel in the case. “This is the first school to pay class-wide damages to female athletes for discriminating against them in violation of Title IX. But it sure won’t be the last.”
After the lawsuit was filed in 2022, SDSU denied it discriminated against female athletes and fought for more than three years before agreeing to the settlement.
“SDSU intentionally chose not to fund women’s sports for the full amount of aid permitted by the NCAA’s rules,” the plaintiffs’ complaint against SDSU said, according to USA Today. “It likewise intentionally chose not to permit the coaches of women’s teams to award the full amount of aid permitted by the NCAA’s rules. Those decisions harmed all Plaintiffs. The same dollar limits were not placed on many of SDSU’s men’s teams, including, for example, the men’s football team.”
Of the 15 named plaintiffs, nine were members of San Diego State’s 2020-21 rowing team, which the school decided to eliminate at the end of that season.
“We are extremely proud we fought SDSU’s sex discrimination against its female athletes and won this ground-breaking settlement,” said plaintiff and former rower Madison Fisk. “SDSU is going to comply with Title IX in the future and pay for violating it in the past.”
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